Card holder



Sept. 19, 1933. F, H, o psgN 1,927,578

CARD HOLDER Filed May 22, 1933 Inventor, F ran/ Lid H. Thomson,

mmmm I A ttorneys.

Patented Sept. 19, 19 33 Franklin H.

CARD HOLDER 4 H Thompson, Indianapolis, Ind.

Application May 22, 1933. Serial No. 672,086

1 Claim.

This invention relates to the art of means for hanging or supportingcards, tags, tickets and the like, such, for example, as is found in thepractice of stores wherein price tags are hung from shelving todesignate prices of articles thereon.

A primary object of the invention is to provide a structure which may beapplied to and removed from a tack without having to withdraw the tackand at the same time retain the holder about the tack against accidentaldisplacement.

A further important object of the invention is to provide a very simplestructure capable of being produced at a low price so that it may beemployed freely without undue restriction as to 1 cost. A still furtherimportant object of the invention is to provide a holder of the natureindicated which will be neat in appearance, will have a considerableportion of the supporting member concealed by the head of atack so thatit will be unobtrusive and not detract from the appearance of the cardor tack support. A still further important advantage of the invention isto provide a tag holder of such formation that the end to be carried bya tack will also serve as a convenient handle bymeans of which theholder is engaged with the card or tag.

These and other objects and advantages will become apparent to thoseversed in the art in the following description of the invention which ismade in reference to the accompanying drawing, in which Fig. 1 is afragmentary front elevation of a device embodying my inventionsupporting a price tag; 3st Fig. 2, a top plan view;

Fig. 3, a front elevation showing the device about to be positioned onthe supporting tack;

Fig. 4, a side elevation of the holder, and

Fig. 5, a top plan view in diagrammatic form indicating the variouspositions of the holder as it may be placed on the supporting tack.

Like characters of reference indicate like parts throughout the severalviews in the drawing.

The device embodying my invention is prefera- "bly formed by bending apiece of wire to'have a plurality of overlapping turns 10, here shown astwo in number, the turns being circular. In the preferred form, theend'of the back turn terminates as at A, Fig. 4, at the top of theturns, and furthermore, extends slightly above the outside of theadjacent turn.

From the upper end of the front turn, the wire is carried verticallyupward to form a short shank 11 and is then curved around upwardly andthence "back downwardly toward the shank to form an upper loop 12generally elliptical in shape, the essential feature being that themajor vertical inner length of the loop be equivalent to or slightly inexcess of the diameter of the head 13 of a supporting tack and that thetransverse width be lessvthan the diameter of this head, this transversewidth being equal to the radius of the head plus the radius of the shankof .the tack plus a clearance length suflicient to permit the loop beingentered by one side under the tack head 13 as indicated in Fig. 3 tohave the entered side carried on over against the tack shank 14 asindicated in Fig. 5 to permit the other side of the loop to be thenswung around to the dotted line position back of the head to have theloop plane parallel with the back of the tack head so that the loop maythen be released to have it drop down to hang on the shank 14 as shownin Fig. l. In any event the width of the loop between the opposing sidesis less than the diameter of the head 13 so that it is necessary toshift the loop laterally to have one side of it contact the shank of thetack and then rotate the looptohave the other side of the loop carriedaround in front of the head before the holder may be disengaged from thetack. It is desirable that the tack be leftin the wood shelving 15without having to be removed and replaced at each change in pricenecessitating a change in the price tag so that the edge of the shelvingis not being marred by tack holes any more than is absolutely necessary.

The price tag 16 here shown as being carried by the holder is engagedwith ,the holder by placing the loop 12 downwardly over the face of thetag to have the upper edge of the tag enter under the end A between itand the adjacent loop 10, the tag being pushed thereunder until itstrikes the opposite side of the loop, following which the loop 12 isengaged and rotated to swing it upwardly to the position indicated inFigs. 1 and 3. The loop 12 being of an elongated nature is easily heldunder this operation. When a customer removes an article from a shelf ashe would in a I self serving store, and in so taking the article happensto strike the price tag, the holder will be retained on its supportingtack even though it be knocked upwardly since there must be a rotationof the holder simultaneouslyjwith the upward lifting before the loop 12can be dis- 1 5 engaged from the tack. It is to be noted'that the tackis not driven into the wood shelving completely but is only insertedtherein suificiently to retain it and still permit suflicient clearancebetween the shelving and the head for the inser- 1 D need not be greatertionof the loop 12 thereunder. This clearance than a distance slightlyin excess of the diameter of the wire of theloop. With the weight of theprice tag on the holder, the loop 12 is ordinarily maintained in theposition indicated in Fig. 1 so that there is no tend-- ency of theprice tag to swing horizontally aboutv said tack head I claim: Incombination with a tack having a head and a shank, a card holder formedfrom wire comprising a plurality of circular turns one elasticallypressing against the other and a non-circular loop extending from theturns having a vertical length sufficient to permit the loop beingentered over tack head width whereby the loop'tov be passed over thetack head is required to be entered by one side under the head andbrought thereunder against said tack shank to permit the other loop sideto be swung around the tack head edge.

FRANKLIN H. THOMPSON.

and having a width less than the

